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Gwendolyn Pang is the Secretary General of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) (as of December 2016 on leave for two years) and currently the Head of Country Cluster Support Team of the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC). Pang, who is credited with helping to modernize the Philippine Red Cross into becoming the Philippines' foremost ...
In 2009, Republic Act No. 10072 or the Philippine Red Cross Act of 2009, was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.The law is an affirmation of the country's "conformity with the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols, and the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement", as well as a confirmation of the PRC's stand as a "voluntary ...
Maria Carissa Oledan Coscolluela is a Filipino politician and humanitarian. [1] [2] She has served on difgerent positions including the Board of Governors of the Philippine Red Cross since 2011, member of the 14th House of Representatives of the Philippines, [3] [2] and the vice chairperson of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Dick Gordon (politician) Richard Juico Gordon (born August 5, 1945) is a Filipino lawyer and politician who most recently served as a Senator from 2016 to 2022, and previously from 2004 to 2010. He is the chairman and CEO of the Philippine Red Cross since 2004. He rose to national prominence for his work in preserving and developing the former ...
Hukbalahap rebellion. The Hukbalahap rebellion was a rebellion staged by former Hukbalahap or Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (lit. 'People's Anti-Japanese Army') soldiers against the Philippine government. It started in 1942 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, continued during the presidency of Manuel Roxas, and ended in 1954 under ...
Website. www.icrc.org. The International Committee of the Red Cross[a] (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and promoting humanitarian norms.
Leoncio " Jun " Badilla Evasco Jr. (born March 29, 1944) [ 5 ] is a Filipino politician who served as Secretary of the Cabinet from 2016 to 2018 and was the Presidential Adviser on Streamlining of Government Processes under the Duterte administration from 2020 to 2022. [ 6 ] Before he was appointed as the Cabinet secretary, he was the Mayor of ...
Rodrigo Duterte assumed office as President of the Philippines on June 30, 2016, and his term ended on June 30, 2022. On May 31, 2016, a few weeks before his presidential inauguration, Duterte named his Cabinet members, [8] which comprised a diverse selection of former military generals, childhood friends, classmates, and leftists. [9]